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Process improvement benefits, methods, and tools including Business Process Management (BPM), Continuous Process Improvement (CPI), Re-engineering, LEAN, Six Sigma, and Friction>Less.

Is it Time For Your Law Firm To Fully Embrace Process Improvement?

Is it Time For Your Law Firm To Fully Embrace Process Improvement?

What are the external and internal signs that your law firm needs to fully embrace process improvement? External Signs: Are clients consolidating the roster of firms they engage, requiring increasingly restrictive guidelines; and asking for holdbacks, discounts, write-offs, AFA, and fixed fee life of the matter? Do existing and prospective clients ask what process improvement framework your firm is using to lower fees and costs? Internal Signs: Is your firm writing off fees and costs billed to clients, finding realization is not…

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Is Process Improvement Valuable In Our Personal Life?

Is Process Improvement Valuable In Our Personal Life?

I have conducted organizational process improvement for over 25 years. In this work, I have used methods such as Total Quality Management, Business Process Management, LEAN, Six Sigma, and Friction>Less™.  These methods provide a way to help organizations improve efficiency, quality, and service. So as we plan for the new year, I have to ask the question. Can we use process improvement methods in our personal life? In reflecting upon this question, here are key concepts, I believe, can help eliminate what is unnecessary,…

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C-Suite Top Four Improvement Ideas for 2020

C-Suite Top Four Improvement Ideas for 2020

As President of CRE8 independent consultants, I regularly work with CEOs, Chiefs, and Directors to solve organizational problems and identify new opportunities.  Based on this work, my top four C-Suite improvement ideas for 2020 are as follows. Better understand your organization from the perspective of the customer. For a moment, forget about web site clicks, likes, deep data conversations, and internal reports; have your executives talk directly to customers. Ask why do they purchase your services or products?  When do…

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